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Yingpan Village Tombs 营盘村墓群Yíngpáncūn Mùqún
National heritage site · Lijiang, Yunnan
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Lijiang
- Region
- Yunnan
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Yingpan Village Tombs
On a hillside above Yingpan village in Liude township, the Taliu, a Yi subgroup living around Taliu Mountain, built some 7,000 stone-faced tombs between the late Ming and the Republican era, most of them in the late 17th and 18th centuries. About 2,500 survive largely intact, many with archway-style headstones up to 2 metres high, carved in relief with auspicious animals and flowers.
How to get to Yingpan Village Tombs
In Liude township, roughly 1–1.5 hours by mountain road south-east of Yongsheng county town; the site is remote.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Guanyin Pavilion, Yongsheng 观音阁 (10 km).
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